Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the war, Bentinck-Smith's occupations were literary in one form or another, and the the prospect of military service was not an appealing one. "I was," he recalls, "a green, innocent fellow from Harvard; a guy, more a writer than a warrior, who found himself on a battleship in the Coral Sea." He served on Rear Admiral Willis Lee's communications staff and later was stationed in Washington...
...defense policies of the Western alliance. He fully backed the U.S. in rejecting the Soviet proposal for NATO membership (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said Pearson: "Falling into such an obvious [propaganda] trap would, of course, be dangerous. We must be prepared to examine Soviet proposals . . . whenever there seems any prospect that negotiations may prove fruitful, but we must do this while maintaining policies which we have adopted with our friends . . . for our collective defense...
OMINOUS'PROSPECT...
This was an exciting and ominous prospect, but the trouble with fusion reactions is that they are not self-starting; uranium fission is. When a sufficient amount (critical mass) of U-235 is assembled, a single, slow-moving neutron can start an atom-splitting chain reaction in it and make the whole chunck explode. Light elements are not so accommodating. Their atoms must be slammed together violently to make them group into larger atoms and yield energy...
...attempted suicide by juveniles had one feature in common: they seemed to have been triggered by failure in school. The press charged that teachers were being tough and unsympathetic. The teachers retorted that the press, by blowing up the reported cases into an epidemic, had made suicide a heroic prospect for despondent youth. A case in point: a lad of 15 threatened suicide unless his marks were raised; when the teacher refused, the boy slashed his wrists (but survived...